Laser microsurgery permits fungal plasma membrane single-ion-channel resolution at the hyphal tip

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1569-1572

  Véry, Anne Aliénor ^a   Davies, Julia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREFELDIN A; ION; ION CHANNEL;

APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS HYPHAE; LASER SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PROTOPLAST;

FUNGI; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; PHOCIDAE;

EID: 0343772778     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/aem.64.4.1569-1572.1998     Document Type: Article

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